Evalation Lab vs Tally

Evalation Lab is the design and estimating tool built for outdoor living contractors — decks, pergolas, concrete flatwork, and retaining structures — all in one app on your iPad or iPhone. DESIGN ON THE JOB SITE Draw your deck or structure to scale directly on the canvas. Snap walls, draw deck surfaces, place footings, railings, and stairs. The 3D view updates in real time so you can walk clients through the design before a single board is cut. STRUCTURAL CALCULATIONS BUILT IN Evalation Lab runs IRC-compliant beam sizing, joist spans, and footing loads as you design. Every structural result is documented and printable. PROFESSIONAL BLUEPRINTS — INSTANTLY Generate a full permit-ready blueprint package as a PDF: plan view, section cuts, framing layout, material schedule, and code notes. No CAD software needed. ACCURATE ESTIMATES IN SECONDS Material takeoffs and labor costs are calculated automatically from your design. Set your own pricing, margins, and framing system — Fortress Evolution, Safco Buildex (Forever Frame®), or Traditional Lumber — and the estimate updates live. TREX RAINESCAPE® DRAINAGE SYSTEM Add the Trex RainEscape® under-deck drainage system to any deck surface with a single toggle. The app calculates trough count, drain locations, butyl tape rolls, and hidden gutter linear footage per bay — with full line-item pricing in the estimate. DECK ADD-ONS • Under-deck ceiling systems • Trex RainEscape® drainage • Hot tub structural allowance • Custom fascia and border board layouts • Cantilever configurations MULTIPLE MODULE TYPES • Decks & multi-surface deck systems • Freestanding and attached pergolas • Concrete and paver flatwork • Retaining walls SIGN AND CLOSE ON SITE Send the estimate to your client, collect an e-signature, and walk away with a signed proposal — all from the app. CONNECTED TO EVALATION OPS Sign in with your Evalation Ops account to pull scheduled estimates directly into Lab, design them, and sync the completed blueprint, material list, and estimate back to your Ops dashboard in one tap. BUILT FOR CONTRACTORS Dark interface designed for outdoor readability. Large, high-contrast labels that stay legible in direct sunlight. Fast, no-clutter workflow that respects your time on a busy job site.

Most to-do apps have a secret: the red badge is the business model. Overdue counts, broken streaks, 247 tasks staring at you until you close the app and never come back. Tally works differently. You get today. One list. Anything you don't finish quietly moves to tomorrow on its own. No rescheduling ceremony, no wall of red, no tiny disappointed parent on your home screen. The task just earns a small tally mark for every day it survives. Honest, not hysterical. A task with six tally marks isn't screaming at you. It's raising an eyebrow. Somehow that works better. ONE DAY. ONE LIST. Add what matters today. That's it. No projects, no sub-projects, no priority matrices, no perspectives, no filters you'll spend a weekend configuring. If your to-do app needs a tutorial, it's a hobby, not a tool. IT ROLLS OVER SO YOU DON'T HAVE TO Midnight comes, finished tasks file themselves into history, unfinished ones carry into tomorrow with one more tally stroke. You never triage a backlog again, because there is no backlog. There's just today, and the things still following you. THOUGHTS: FOR THINGS THAT AREN'T TASKS YET Half-ideas, maybes, and somedays go in the Thoughts dump. No checkbox, no deadline, no guilt. When one grows up, promote it to today with a tap. TYPE #, GET ORGANIZED BY ACCIDENT Write #home or #work anywhere in a task. Tap the tag to see everything in it, pending first, completed hidden until you ask. No tag manager, no setup, no cleanup. Tags exist because you typed them, and die when you delete them. YESTERDAY, EXACTLY AS YOU LEFT IT Swipe right to walk back through your days, read only. What got done, what spilled over. Your history stays honest because you can't rewrite it. WHAT'S NOT HERE, ON PURPOSE No streaks. No badges. No confetti. No karma points. No collaboration, no comments, no Kanban, no AI assistant asking how your day was. No account, either: your list lives on your device and syncs privately through iCloud. We can't see your tasks, and frankly, the tally marks are judgment enough. WORKS EVERYWHERE YOU DO iPhone, iPad, and Mac. Widgets that show your open count and let you check things off without opening the app. Full keyboard shortcuts on Mac. Tally is for people who have downloaded eleven to-do apps, configured four of them beautifully, and finished zero of them. The problem was never your discipline. It was the software asking you to run a small logistics company just to remember the dry cleaning. One day. One list. A few quiet marks that keep you honest.